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Title: The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row
Condition: New
Subtitle: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures
Author: Bernard F. Dick
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0813152097
EAN: 9780813152097
ISBN: 9780813152097
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Genre: Biography
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre, Films & TV
Release Date: 19/10/2021
Description: Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other Harry Cohns: the only studio president who was also head of production; the ex-song plugger who scrutinized scripts and grilled writers at story conferences; a man who could look at actresses as either "broads" or goddesses. Drawing on personal interviews as well as previously unstudied source material (conference notes, memos, and especially the teletypes between Harry and his brother Jack), Bernard Dick offers a radically different portrait of the man who ran Columbia Pictures - and who "had to be boss" - from 1932 to 1958.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Release Year: 2021

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